
Thank you so much! I love this song. Do you by any chance know why it has the same melody as a Hindi film song?
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Thank you so much! I love this song. Do you by any chance know why it has the same melody as a Hindi film song?
After an extensive search I found out that the song is a cover of a 1955 Hindi song called "Mera Joota hai Japani" and it is has been covered two times in 1963 and 1964 by Greek artists. I don't know why they never mentioned it is a cover given it was an official 45 RPM released by the old Fidelity and Parlophone labels respectively. The RPM disc image I found just blatantly writes "Music: Kostas Kapetanios" where it should write "Original Music: Shankar Jaikishan
and Mastering: Kostas Kapetanios" who actually arranged the song based on someone else's music. Well, I bet we have a case of plagiarism here lol
Wow, thank you! I guess that explains it!
Although the lyrics are different, this is the same melody as the Hindi film song “ Mera Joota Hai Japani” here:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/raj-kapoor-mera-joota-hai-japani-lyrics.html
I would love to know the story of how these songs are related, if anyone knows.